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The Piano Lesson
Piano Lesson, 1983, collage of various papers with paint, ink, and graphite. The Walter O. Evans Foundation for Art and Literature. ©Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, New York.
A year after Bearden completed this collage, he returned to the subject for his lithograph Homage to Mary Lou, a reference to the great jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981). In 1990 August Wilson published the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson, which was inspired by Bearden's collage of the same title. Like Bearden, Williams and Wilson had Pittsburgh connections.
The Piano Lesson
Piano Lesson, 1983, collage of various papers with paint, ink, and graphite. The Walter O. Evans Foundation for Art and Literature. ©Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, New York.
A year after Bearden completed this collage, he returned to the subject for his lithograph Homage to Mary Lou, a reference to the great jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981). In 1990 August Wilson published the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson, which was inspired by Bearden's collage of the same title. Like Bearden, Williams and Wilson had Pittsburgh connections.